LÍNGUA INGLESA-ESTRUTURA SINTÁTICA I - AULA 10

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LÍNGUA INGLESA – ESTRUTURA SINTÁTICA I 
AULA 10 – ACADEMIC PRESENTATION 
 
 1a Questão 
 
 
'The curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window.' What type of 
figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 
A) pun 
 
D) hyperbole 
 E) personification 
 
C) onomatopoeia 
 
B) metaphor 
 
 2a Questão 
 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage. 
Turn off your television sets 
Turn them off now! 
Turn them off right now! 
Turn them off and leave them off. 
Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence 
I'm speaking to you now.'(Peter Finch as television anchorman Howard Beale in Network, 1976) 
 
 
(b) assonance 
 
(a) antithesis 
 
(e) onomatopoeia 
 (c) anaphora 
 
(d) hyperbole 
 
 3a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'You have a lot of work to do, so I'll lend you a hand.' 
 
 
(e) pleonasm 
 
(b) apostrophe 
 (d) synechdoche 
 
(c) irony 
 
(a) assonance 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of collagenous junk.' (The Wizard of Oz) 
 
 
(b) irony 
 
(e) synecdoche 
 
(a) ellipsis 
 
(c) anaphora 
 (d) alliteration 
 
 5a Questão 
 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
O Western wind, when wilt thou blow 
That the small rain down can rain? 
Christ, that my love were in my arms, 
And I in my bed again!(Anonymous, 'O Western Wind') 
 
 
(d) anaphora 
 
(a) pleonasm 
 (c) apostrophe 
 
(e) irony 
 
(b) antithesis 
 
 6a Questão 
 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage. 
I dig my toes into the sand 
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds (Incubus) 
 
 
(c) onomatopoeia 
 
(e) euphemism 
 
(a)pleonasm 
 
(b) synecdoche 
 (d) simile 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
 'The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up to the blue 
western sky'. 
 
 
(b) metonymy 
 (e) onomatopoeia 
 
(d) antithesis 
 
(c) anaphora 
 
(a) simile 
 
 8a Questão 
 
 
'I like pancakes so much I could eat a million of them.' What type of figurative language is used in this 
sentence? 
 
 
C) alliteration 
 
B) zeugma 
 A) hyperbole 
 
D) personification 
 
E) pun 
 
 1a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'? 
 
 
pleonasm 
 
irony 
 antithesis 
 
pun 
 
metaphor 
 
 2a Questão 
 
 
'I was so hungry that I even ate the plate.' 
What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 E) hyperbole 
 
C) simile 
 
A) personification 
 
D) pleonasm 
 
B) metaphor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'? 
 
 personification 
 
hyperbole 
 
climax 
 
metonymy 
 
synecdoche 
 
 4a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!' 
 
 hyperbole 
 
onomatopoeia 
 
simile 
 
metaphor 
 
pun 
 
 5a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty 
by selling their children to the rich to eat.'? 
 
 
metaphor 
 
personification 
 
hyperbole 
 
metonymy 
 irony 
 
 6a Questão 
 
 
The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of 
________________. 
 
 
irony 
 
pun 
 onomatopoeia 
 
antithesis 
 
metaphor 
 
 7a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'My uncle passed away in 1970.'? 
 
 
hyperbole 
 
pun 
 euphemism 
 
personification 
 
pleonasm 
 
 
 8a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet 
At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk (Billy Corgan, 'Thirty-three') 
 
 
(a) euphemism 
 
(b) simile 
 (d) personification 
 
(c) antithesis 
 
(e) pun 
 
 1a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for 
without victory there is no survival.' (Sir Winston Churchill) 
 
 (a) anaphora 
 
(e) pun 
 
(c) onomatopoeia 
 
(d) ellipsis 
 
(b) zeugma 
 
 2a Questão 
 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage. 
Turn off your television sets. 
Turn them off now! 
Turn them off right now! 
Turn them off and leave them off. 
Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence 
I'm speaking to you now.'(Peter Finch as television anchorman Howard Beale in Network, 1976) 
 
 
(d) hyperbole 
 
(a) antithesis 
 (c) anaphora 
 
(e) onomatopoeia 
 
(b) assonance 
 
 
 
 
 
 3a Questão 
 
 
'Teddy tiger tried tying teepees together.' 
What type of figurative language is this sentence? 
 
 
A) onomatopoeia 
 
E) metaphor 
 C) alliteration 
 
D) hyperbole 
 
B) euphemism 
 
 4a Questão 
 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage. 
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch 
of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, 
it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we 
were all going direct the other way." (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) 
 
 
metaphor 
 antithesis 
 
pleonasm 
 
personification 
 
simile 
 
 5a Questão 
 
 
'Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open.' 
 What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 
C) alliteration 
 
E) assonance 
 
A) metaphor 
 B) hyperbole 
 
D) personification 
 
 6a Questão 
 
 
'Silly sally sang a silly summer song.' 
 What type of figurative language is this sentence? 
 
 
C) hyperbole 
 B) alliteration 
 
E) irony 
 
D) antithesis 
 
A) onomatopoeia 
 
 
 
 7a Questão 
 
 
The figure of speech in the sentence: "George Bush talked during his campaign about 'compassionate 
conservatism", which to many liberals sounds like a(n) ___________________. 
 
 oxymoron 
 
personification 
 
metaphor 
 
hyperbole 
 
irony 
 
 8a Questão 
 
 
'He was a library of information about baseball.' What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 
D) hyperbole 
 
A) pleonasm 
 
B) personification 
 
E) onomatopoeia 
 C) metaphor 
 
 1a Questão 
 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passages. 
I. The picture in that magazine shouted for attention. 
II. Whereareyouat?' 
III. Her home was a prison. 
IV. Plink, plink, fizz, fizz'(Alka Seltzer, U.K.) 
 
 
 b) personification - pleonasm - metaphor - onomatopoeia 
 
a) pleonasm - metaphor - onomatopoeia – personification 
 
c) pleonasm - personification - metaphor – onomatopoeiae) personification - metaphor - pleonasm – onomatopoeia 
 
d) personification - metaphor - onomatopoeia - pleonasm 
 
 
 2a Questão 
 
 
Consider the sentence: 'Christianity shone like a beacon in the black night of paganism.' What 
figure of speech is "Christianity shone like a beacon"? 
 
 
irony 
 simile 
 
metaphor 
 
climax 
 
hyperbole 
 
 
 
 
 
 3a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.' 
(Mark Twain) 
 
 
(e) zeugma 
 
(a) anaphora 
 (d) antithesis 
 
(c) apostrophe 
 
(b) pun 
 
 4a Questão 
 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage. 
Turn off your television sets 
Turn them off now! 
Turn them off right now! 
Turn them off and leave them off. 
Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence 
I'm speaking to you now.'(Peter Finch as television anchorman Howard Beale in Network, 1976) 
 
 
(b) assonance 
 
(d) hyperbole 
 (c) anaphora 
 
(e) onomatopoeia 
 
(a) antithesis 
 
 5a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of collagenous junk.' (The Wizard of Oz) 
 
 
(c) anaphora 
 (d) alliteration 
 
(b) irony 
 
(e) synecdoche 
 
(a) ellipsis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6a Questão 
 
 
'I like pancakes so much I could eat a million of them.' What type of figurative language is used in this 
sentence? 
 
 A) hyperbole 
 
E) pun 
 
C) alliteration 
 
B) zeugma 
 
D) personification 
 
 7a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
 'The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up to the blue 
western sky'. 
 
 (e) onomatopoeia 
 
(d) antithesis 
 
(c) anaphora 
 
(a) simile 
 
(b) metonymy 
 
 8a Questão 
 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage. 
I dig my toes into the sand 
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds (Incubus) 
 
 
(c) onomatopoeia 
 
(b) synecdoche 
 
(e) euphemism 
 
(a)pleonasm 
 (d) simile 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1a Questão 
 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
O Western wind, when wilt thou blow 
That the small rain down can rain? 
Christ, that my love were in my arms, 
And I in my bed again!(Anonymous, 'O Western Wind') 
 
 (c) apostrophe 
 
(d) anaphora 
 
(e) irony 
 
(a) pleonasm 
 
(b) antithesis 
 
 2a Questão 
 
 
'The curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window.' What type of 
figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 
A) pun 
 E) personification 
 
D) hyperbole 
 
B) metaphor 
 
C) onomatopoeia 
 
 3a Questão 
 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'You have a lot of work to do, so I'll lend you a hand.' 
 
 
(c) irony 
 (d) synechdoche 
 
(e) pleonasm 
 
(b) apostrophe 
 
(a) assonance 
 
 4a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!' 
 
 hyperbole 
 
metaphor 
 
pun 
 
simile 
 
onomatopoeia 
 
 5a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'My uncle passed away in 1970.'? 
 
 
pun 
 euphemism 
 
hyperbole 
 
pleonasm 
 
personification 
 
 6a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'? 
 
 
climax 
 personification 
 
hyperbole 
 
metonymy 
 
synecdoche 
 
 7a Questão 
 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'? 
 
 
metaphor 
 
pun 
 antithesis 
 
pleonasm 
 
irony 
 
 8a Questão 
 
 
'I was so hungry that I even ate the plate.' 
What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 
A) personification 
 E) hyperbole 
 
B) metaphor 
 
C) simile 
 
D) pleonasm